ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,917, issued on June 30, was assigned to Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).
"Method to manufacture a recyclable textile product and the said product" was invented by Jelle Bernardus Otto Van Der Werf (Geleen, Netherlands), Debby Leusink-Husken (Geleen, Netherlands) and Cornelis Eme Koning (Geleen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to manufacture a (recyclable) polyester textile product is disclosed which includes providing a first polyester sheet, stitching polyester yarns through the first sheet to form a pile on a first surface of the first sheet, the pile extending from this first surface, and to f...